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The Gary Speed Tribute Challenge

A tribute to a Welshman with a vision. Gary Speed a true cult hero for many, a legend for some, one to be remembered for all. As a salute to Gary Speed's dedication to the welsh national team I've devised a challenge for people to try to emulate and surpass Gary's vision. Bring Glory to Wales, start with the foundations, a solid youth team. So, I thought that I'd make a spin off from the San Marino Challenge. This one requires a little less dedication, since Swansea are already in the Prem, and Cardiff are in the Championship. However, The main aspect to this Challenge is to harvest young welsh talent and turn the national side into a contender. Now, Let's all think for a moment about the Barca team, That is a perfect example of home grown talent. Emulate that and bring pride to Wales!

We've taken many suggestions from last season and the main one seems to be managers wanting to add the Welsh Premier league into the fold. We are very keen to do this and it is in the works - so if you want to manger Bangor City or TNS go ahead and post on here as part of the challenge and we will eventually add your points onto the chart.

Rules:
1. Manager To be Welsh - 50% point reduction is enforced on none Welsh managers.
2. No use of Genie-Scout
3. No use of Editor

A point system will be awarded as follows...

Challenge

Swansea

Cardiff

Wrexham

Newport County

Colwyn Bay

Wales

Win the PL

30

30

30

30

30

Win the Championship*

20

20

20

20

20

Win League one*

15

15

15

15

15

Win League two*

10

10

10

10

10

Win the Blue Square Premiership*

10

10

10

10

10

Win the Blue Square North*

10

10

10

10

10

Win the FA cup

20

20

20

20

20

Win the Capital One Cup

10

10

10

10

10

Win the Community Shield

5

5

5

5

5

Win the Welsh Cup (TBD)

Win the JPT

10

10

10

Win the FA Trophy

5

5

5

Qualify For Europa

5

5

5

5

5

Win Europa

15

15

15

15

15

Qualify for CL

10

10

10

10

10

Win CL

20

20

20

20

20

Win the Super Cup

5

5

5

5

5

Win the World Club Championship

15

15

15

15

15

u18 league win

5

5

5

5

5

u18 Cup win

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.5

Home Grown Hero*

x2

x2

x2

x2

x2

Welsh U19 Manager*

10

Welsh U21 Manager*

20

Welsh Manager!*

30

4 Associates Trophy

10

Euro Qualification

10

Euro round of 16

5

Euro Round of 8

5

Euro Quarter's

5

Euro Semi's

10

Euro Winners!

20

World Cup Qualification

20

WC Round of 16

10

WC Quarter's

10

WC Semi's

20

WC Winners!

40

* = Can only be achieved if you do not start as the Welsh national manager as well.
* = If your club achieves any of these while boasting an 70% welsh squad your points will be doubled.
* = If you gain promotion you are entitled to HALF to points awarded to winning the league you are being promoted from.

For any one interested in signing up, I will create a table or a hall of Fame and add your points as you post your achievements. Please post any questions here, Or contact me on steam! I'll be partaking in the challenge soon. Post screen shots of your achievements so that I can add them to the Gary Speed Challenge league table!

Thanks goes out to JonoMUFC for his input on the creation of this challenge.

A further thank you to Meynell94 and I7IDanny for their contributions throughout last season. Aannddyy had a good run and deserves a cheers!Table of Champions:

Chris Stevenson: Qualify for the World Cup (20), Round of Sixteen (10), Quarter Finals (10), Semi Finals (20), Won The World Cup (40) JonoMUFC: Won BSP (10), Won nPower 2 (10), Won nPower1 (15), Won the Championship (20), Won the Capital One Cup (10) x2, Qualified for Europa League (5) x2, Won Premier League (30) x3, Qualification for Champions League (10), Won the Champions League (30), faulky10: Promotion from BSP (5), Won the nPower 2 (10), Won the nPower 1 (15), Won the JPT (10)gogogo golem: Qualification for Europa League (5) x3, Won the Capital One Cup (10) x2, Won the FA Cup (20), Wales Manager (30), Qualify for Euro Cup (10)Kezza96: Promotion from Championship (10), Qualified for Champions League (10), Qualified for Europa League (5)Wrexham: Won BSP (10), Won nPower 2 (10), Won nPower 1 (15)tuckson: Promotion from BSN (5), Won the FAT (10)Wynters: Won Capital 1 (10), Europa Qualification (5), FA Cup (20), Won Premier League (30), Champions League Qualification (10) x2, tuckson 2.0: Promotion from BSP (5), Promotion from Npower League 2 (5)Safc-mad-scotty: Won BSN (10), Won BSP (10), Won Npower League 2 (10)

We haven't fully decided on a point scale for the Welsh leagues yet. We are up for suggestions if you want to throw a few at us.

Obviously winning the Welsh Cup would remain the same points total. Winning the WPL would probably be about the same tally as winning the League 2. Around 15 or something. You qualifying for group stages of the CL would increase slightly as it is harder for the welsh teams to battle through the 3 rounds of qualifying.

But throw some numbers out there that are reasonable and we can discuss the possibility of implementing that into the challenge.